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Postage account for the Public Assistance Committee.

Register of addressees (last name or abbreviation only) and stamps used.

Includes name of inmate; date of birth; and number of days in ward.

Records medical relief delivered to paupers by the District Medical Officer/s of the York Poor Law Union and later the Public Assistance Committee.

Includes name of pauper; residence; nature of disease; date of relief; and days attended by the medical officer. Also notes if patients were ordered into institutions such as the Workhouse Infirmary or Fever Hospital.

Register of incoming general correspondece to the Public Assistance Committee.

Includes date, name of correspondent, and subject of letter.

Typed minutes

Approved, bound minutes

Reports from the superintendent nurse to the House Committee. Includes one loose draft report.

Includes a small number of entries for military war casualties (in green ink) and registered aliens (in red ink).

Records number of items of clothing and bedding given out.

Correspondence and accounts for non-settled poor. Includes name of individual receiving relief, council chargeable, and amount of relief granted.

Comprises application form; service certificate;and reference

Concerns rest centres established in York during World War II. Indexed

Typed minutes

Petty cash books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Comprises registers of non-resident and non-settled poor chargeable to the York Poor Law Union, and after 1930 the York Public Assistance Committee.

Non-resident poor refers to individuals receiving poor relief who were legally settled in York but residing elsewhere.

Non -settled poor refers to individuals receiving relief who were living in York but legally settled elsewhere.

Includes name; address; and details of sick leave and holiday leave.

Registers recording births in York Workhouse (later called City Institution).
Includes name; name of parent/s; date of birth; gender; parish/address; and in some cases further remarks. Registers from 1914 include whether the child was legitimate or illegitimate.

Comprises receipt and payment books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee; the York Out-Relief Union; the Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions; and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.

Notices filed alphabetically by surname

Indexed

Indexed

Indexed

Prescription slips for individual patients subsidised by the Public Assistance Committee. Includes name of patient, address and medicines prescribed.

Includes some minutes and related papers.

Records orders made by the Collecting Committee to recover payments of relief (welfare payments) made to individuals. The Collecting Committee usually ordered liable relatives to contribute to the maintenance of destitute and poor relations.
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The entries record the name of the person chargeable (i.e. receiving welfare); name of liable relative; address; order and amount to be repaid.

Note: volumes PLU/4/1/5-8 were missing as at Dec 2016.

Includes name; office; date commenced employment; and date left employment. Listed in rough alphabetical order.

Comprises relief books of the District Medical Offices of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistnce Committee; also includes prescriptions subsidised by the Public Assistance Commitee